Backyard Soccer
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Backyard Soccer, known in Europe as Backyard Football (PC)[1] or Junior Sports Football (PlayStation) and in Australia as Junior Sports Soccer, is a children's association football video game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment; Infogrames published the PlayStation version. It is the second game in the Backyard Sports series, following Backyard Baseball. It was first released on September 26, 1998, for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows,[2] in 2001 for the PlayStation, and in 2008 for iOS. The PC and PlayStation versions of the game, alongside the PlayStation 2 version of Backyard Basketball, were the only Backyard Sports titles released in Europe.
Backyard Soccer | |
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Developer(s) | Humongous Entertainment[lower-alpha 1] |
Publisher(s) | Humongous Entertainment[lower-alpha 2] |
Series | Backyard Sports |
Engine | SCUMM |
Platform(s) | Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation, iOS |
Release | PCPlayStationiOS
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Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
The game spawned two sequels, both of which would include players from Major League Soccer and the USWNT; the sequels were Backyard Soccer MLS Edition, released in 2000[3] and Backyard Soccer 2004, released in 2003.[4]